OBAMA IS A MISERABLE FAILURE WHO FAILED TO MEET ANY OF THE EXPECTATIONS HE SET UP (PARTIAL LISTING):

HE NEVER CLOSED GITMO.

HE DIDN'T END THE WAR IN IRAQ; HE JUST RETREATED.

IN AFGHANISTAN HE PIVOTED TO A SURGE THAT WASN'T.

HE DIDN'T CUT SPENDING WITH A SCALPEL - OR ANYTHING ELSE.

HE DIDN'T GET AND KEEP UNEMPLOYMENT BELOW 8% - HE KEPT IT ABOVE 8%!

HE ENDED THE MANNED SPACE MISSION OF NASA; NOW WE MUST LAUNCH OUR ASTRONAUTS INTO SPACE ON RUSSIA SPACESHIPS.

HE SHOWERED BILLIONS OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS ON HIS FRIENDS IN THE "GREEN ECONOMY" AND THIS YIELDED NO JOBS AND NO CHANGE IN ENERGY USE OR PRODUCTION; (ONLY FRACKING HAS!).

HE MADE RACE RELATIONS WORSE BY HOW HE WEIGHED-IN ON BOTH THE TRAYVON AND THE HL GATES CASES.

HE MADE ISRAEL'S NEGOTIATING POSITIONSWEAKER.

HE AIDED THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD'S ASCENDANCE AND THEIR TAKEOVER OF TUNIS AND LIBYA AND EGYPT - AND SOON SYRIA.

HE APPEASED PUTIN AND EVEN PROMISED HIM HE'D BE "MORE FLEXIBLE" IN A SECOND TERM; (G-D FORBID!).

HE HASN'T HAD A BUDGET IN 3 YEARS.

HE HAS RUN UP MORE DEBT IN 3.5 YEARS THAN BUSH DID IN 8 WHILE FIGHTING TWO HOT WARS - AND OBAMA HAS NOTHING TO SHOW FOR IT.

HE AND/OR HIS APPOINTEES INITIATED FAST & FURIOUS - SELLING GUNS TO MEXICO'S DRUG CARTELS- WITHOUT THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT'S KNOWLEDGE; THESE GUNS KILLED MEXICANS AND US BORDER AGENTS, AND HE AND HIS ATTORNEY GENERAL AND THEIR SUBORDINATES HAVE - WHILE UNDER OATH - LIED ABOUT IT TO CONGRESS; IOW: THEY COMMITTED PERJURY.

HE HANDLED THE BP OIL SPILL IN ABSOLUTELY MISERABLE AND INCOMPETENT FASHION.

HE HAS PLAYED MORE GOLF THAN ALL BUT 2 PREVIOUS PRESIDENTS - WILSON AND IKE , WHILE ATTENDING MORE FUNDRAISERS THAN ANY PREVIOUS PRESIDENT.

HE PROMISED THE OBAMACARE DEBATES WOULD BE TELEVISED - AND THEY WEREN'T; IN FACT, IT TURNED OUT TO BE A 200+ PAGE BILL NO ONE READ, WHICH WAS ONLY PASSED BECAUSE HE BOUGHT VOTES.

Friday, July 27, 2012

The United States upended a major international treaty negotiation, telling foreign delegates at the final session today that they needed more time to consider the pact. Some diplomats said that Washington is seeking another six months, pushing off any decision on the politically sensitive treaty until after the U.S. election. Russia, Indonesia, and India also asked for more time.

I WAS ABLE TO LOCATE A PHOTO OF OBAMA'S MEETING WITH BAN KI MOON - TAKEN JUST BEFORE THE DECISION MEANT TO AVOID EXPOSING OBAMA AS ANTI-2ND AMENDMENT JUST BEFORE THE ELECTION:

It's because they promote a Gramscian agenda that may be in tune with the chic degeneratiwho work at the NYTIMES - and the few who still read it, but not the overwhelming majority of people who live in the USA.

DREA EBONY was clearly feeling it. Who wouldn’t marvel at the way she flipped her hair in a circle and kicked her leg out like a Rockette as she sauntered up and down that runway in her shiny gold pants and white tank top, as cheers from the crowd grew louder and louder.

Time and time again, young kids on the transgender spectrum had graced stages almost identical to this one and been sent packing. But Drea Ebony, 18 and visiting from Pittsburgh, was different. She was a star. And she was going to prove it.

With the lights dimmed and the music blaring, Ms. Ebony flipped back in a handspring-like maneuver that ended with her landing on her back like a breakdancer. She then sprang back up, striking a pose or two or three.

“Ten. Ten. Ten. Ten. Tens across the board,” the M.C. Dashaun Wesley boomed as judges held up their scores.

Moments later, Ms. Ebony had her trophy in hand, the victor in the category of Female Figure Vogue, beating a host of other contestants from houses like LaBeija, Mugler and Evisu. “I’ve never been at an event this big,” Ms. Ebony said. “I think this is definitely the biggest one.”

Back in the 1980s, voguing and drag balls flourished in gay New York, with a brief surge in the early ’90s brought on by Madonna, Malcolm McLaren and the film “Paris Is Burning,” which chronicled the lives of several of the subculture’s most colorful inhabitants. But first came AIDS and then came hedge funds. And so the scene receded to the shadows, returning to smaller venues in Harlem and the South Bronx.

But then last month, e-mail began circulating with the news that the Xtravas (as they are known in drag ball parlance) were bringing the party to XL, a slicker-than-vinyl gay club near Times Square, in an attempt to widen the audience again.

And judging by the turnout last Sunday at the House of Xtravaganza’s 30th anniversary celebration, the effort has worked.

IT'S CLEAR WHOSE SIDE THE NYTIMES IS ON - AND IT'S NOT THE SIDE OF NORMAL PEOPLE.

IT'S THE SIDE THAT SAYS THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS NORMAL AND THAT DEVIANCY IS FINE.

IT'S THE POSTMODERNIST SIDE - AND THAT'S WHAT IS HURTING THE NYTIMES PROFITS AND RUINING OUR CIVILIZATION FROM THE INSIDE.

AT first glance the opening and dinner at the Allegra LaViola Gallery on the Lower East Side on Wednesday night looked like any other New York art event. There were stylish people from Brooklyn and Manhattan, in dark clothing and notable shoes. Photographs lined the walls. Thematically appropriate mood music — in this case, live drums — came from a corner of the gallery. Laura Ginn, the artist being celebrated, wore a one-shoulder, one-of-a-kind dress.

There was a bit of a stench coming off it, though. Ms. Ginn’s gown was made of rat pelts, 300 of them, that she had tanned and sewn together. Their tails encircled her abdomen; two rat faces met on her right shoulder. “I thought that was cute,” she said, and laughed. “They’re kind of kissing. I do anthropomorphize them sometimes.”

Ms. Ginn, 28, has made working with animals her métier since she graduated with an M.F.A. in photography from Cranbrook Academy in Michigan in 2010.

...Twenty people, mostly friends of Ms. Ginn or the gallery owner, Ms. LaViola, nibbled on goat cheese bruschetta topped with rat leg tenderloin, and rat-pork terrine encircled with beef fat, prepared by a chef after much trial and error with his proteins.

The rats were shipped from a United States Department of Agriculture-approved West Coast processor that supplies pet owners with humanely killed, individually flash-frozen rodents, in classifications ranging from “jumbo” to “fuzzy.”

Seventy five rats were skinned and cooked — and broiled and smoked and grilled — for the dinner, and most guests paid $100 each to attend, signing a liability waiver, some not entirely willingly.

THEY WERE SERVED ON OLD GLORY:

CHECK OUT THE SLIDE SHOW.

IT'S DEVIANT.

AND THE NYTIMES CELEBRATES IT.

AND THAT'S WHY THEY LOSE MILLIONS.

AND DEFINING DEVIANCY DOWN IS WHY OUR CULTURE IS DECLINING.

THAT'S WHAT THE POSTMODERN LEFT WANTS.

IT'S THE CULTURE WAR:

ONE ONE SIDE IT'S WESTERN CIVILIZATION AGAINST DEVIANCY; ON THE OTHER SIDE IT'S WESTERN CIVILIZATION AGAINST JIHADISM AND SHARIA.

According to several Hebrew sports sites, the two teams were scheduled to use the same gym and mats at London’s new ExCeL center for their final preparations. However, the delegation from Lebanon would not train in view of the Israeli team, and insisted some sort of barrier be placed between them.

Organizers accepted the Lebanese coach’s demand to separate the teams, erecting a barrier so that the Lebanese team wouldn’t see the Israeli one.

THIS IS A SICKENING DISPLAY OF DHIMMITUDE.

IT REVEAL THAT THE SCUM WHO RUN THE OLYMPICS ARE ENTIRELY UNPRINCIPLED.

EARLIER THIS WEEK THEY EXPELLED A GREEK ATHLETE FOR MAKING WHAT MANY COULD CONSTRUE AS A RACIST JOKE/TWEET.

IF SHE HAD TO VAMOOSE, THEN SO SHOULD THE LEBANESE TEAM.

AND ANOTHER THING: THE WHOLE ENTIRE FREAKIN' OLYMPIC SPECTACLE EXISTS TO HELP HUMANITY DEAL WITH OUR NATIONAL DIVIDES THROUGH HEALTHY ATHLETIC COMPETITION.

THE LEBANESE TEAM ANTISEMITISM RUN COUNTER TO THAT SPIRIT.

AND THE OLYMPIC COMMITTEE'S ACCEPTANCE OF IT PROVES THEY ARE ANTISEMITIC SCUM.

ESPECIALLY SINCE THEY REFUSED TO TO HAVE EVEN ONE MINUTE OF SILENCE FOR THE MEMBERS OF THE ISRAELI OLYMPIC TEAM WHO WERE MURDERED BY ARABS IN 1972.

THEY BELIEVE CRAP LIKE... BIG CORPORATIONS MAKE PEOPLE BUY STUFF THEY DON'T NEED OR WANT.

BUT IN TRUTH, ONLY THE GOVERNMENT CAN FORCE PEOPLE TO DO OR BUY ANYTHING.

CORPORATIONS HAVE NO COERCIVE POWER; THEY MUST COMPETE FOR YOUR BUSINESS.

WHEN CORPORATIONS DO MARKET RESEARCH, THEY'RE NOT TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WAYS TO FORCE YOU TO BUY THEIR CRAP; THEY'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THE THINGS WE WANT TO BUY AND THEN THEY TRY TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO PRODUCE AND DISTRIBUTE IT PROFITABLY.

ONLY WHEN BIG CORPORATIONS ARE BACKED BY THE POWER OF BIG GOVERNMENT CAN THEY RIDE ROUGHSHOD OVER THE PUBLIC.

CRONY CAPITALISM IS THE ENEMY, NOT CAPITALISM.

WHEN LEFTISTS ATTACK BIG CORPORATIONS BECAUSE THEY HATE ONES THEY DO PUSH THE PUBLIC AROUND - THE ONES IN BED WITH BIG GOVERNMENT, THEY ARE THROWING THE BABY OUT WITH THE BATHWATER.

REMEMBER:

NO CORPORATION FORCES ANYONE - OR CAN FORCE ANYONE - TO BUY THEIR CRAP; THEY CAN ONLY DO THAT IF THEY GET THEIR PALS IN BIG GOVERNMENT TO HELP THEM.

AND WHEN THAT HAPPENS, WE ALL HAVE LESS LIBERTY - AND A GREATER CHANCE OF WASTING OUR MONEY ON CRAPPILY MADE CRAP WE DON'T WANT OR NEED.

The country's unemployment rate rose to 24.6% during the April to June quarter, up from 24.4% during the previous quarter. ... Spain's third largest bank reported an 80% fall in net profits. ... Spain's borrowing costs jumped above 7% on worries that the debt problems being faced by several of the country's regional governments would push Spain towards seeking a full bailout. Bond costs above 7% are generally considered to be unsustainable in the long run

THE EURO CRISIS IS FAR FROM OVER - AND IT WILL NOT END WITH THE EURO INTACT.

THE EUSSR APPARATCHIKS ARE EITHER TRYING TO SAVE WHAT CAN'T BE SAVED - AND WHAT SHOULDN'T BE, OR MERELY TRYING TO ACHIEVE A SOFT-LANDING.

BUT THE FACT IS THAT THE LONGER THIS IS DRAWN OUT THE WORSE IT WILL GET AND THE TOUGHER THE EVENTUAL RECOVERY WILL BE FOR EVERYONE.

Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann has called for investigation of the Muslim Brotherhood's influence in America, and she's won the support of Eric Allan Bell, the former leftist now turned critic of Islam.

She's also had problems with GOP members who've unfortunately had the cowardice by contrast to attack her concerns as "baseless", including House speaker John Boehner and John McCain. As Diana West notes:

And so the muck flies -- at Michele Bachmann. She has the audacity, in their eyes, of asking for information that the American people have every right to know. Her character-assassins in the media, in her own party, committ the very crime they falsely accuse her of: slandering without facts. House Speaker John Boehner actually admitted he hadn't read Bachmann's query letter but saw fit to denounce Bachmann anyway for "throwing around" accusations that were "pretty dangerous." John McCain, the man who last year called AQ-linked Libyan forces his "heroes," erroneously stated on the Senate floor that Bachmann's concerns -- "sinister accusations," he luridly called them -- “rest solely on a few unspecified and unsubstantiated associations of members of Huma’s family.” (Again, as Andy McCarthy lays out here, "the ties of Ms. Abedin’s father, mother, and brother to the Muslim Brotherhood are both specific and substantiated.")

Boehner owes Bachmann an apology for implying that any and all discussions of legitimate concerns like these is forbidden, and so does McCain. This is a sad problem with even so-called conservative leaders that they're apparently not willing to face the serious realities about Islam, and that even included, sadly enough, Ronald Reagan. As Caroline Glick reminded almost 2 weeks ago:

Back in the 1980s, the Reagan administration happily cooperated with the precursors of al-Qaida in America's covert war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. It never occurred to the Americans then that the same people working with them to overthrow the Soviets would one day follow the lead of the blind sheikh and attack America.

And it never occurred to Jimmy Carter, the originator of these cooperations, either, I guess. This sends an important message that conservatives who recognize the dangers of Islamofascism could not have expected Reagan to take a proper approach to dealing with it in his time. After all, he never called upon Egypt's Mubarak to shape up the country for real and abandon Islam, did he?

Bachmann's courage in confronting a serious subject is something to be commended, and the GOP would be advised to thank her for it. Newt Gingrich has already come to her defense, and others should too. The Muslim Brotherhood is a very dangerous movement that cannot be allowed to have influence in democratic countries.

First and foremost, a majority of Israelis (usually around the 60 percent mark, sometimes higher) consistently support the two-state solution, even at a time when that proposal is clearly at a post-Oslo low point. So Dayan need not appeal to readers of the New York Times; he is far from convincing his own countrymen to join him. It is much easier to understand why the Times chose to publish the op-ed: the American left would like to frame the debate as consisting of two points of view–Dayan’s and J Street’s. Both are outside the mainstream consensus on this issue, and it is only up against Dayan’s arguments that the hard-left can appear reasonable. With regard to Dayan, there are three questions he should be asked after writing this op-ed.

First, the obvious: What about the Palestinians? Dayan doesn’t say Israel should give the Palestinians in Judea and Samaria voting rights. If he would, is he not concerned about the demographics at play? If he would not, is he suggesting that the Palestinians should be a permanently stateless people and that Israel would be permanently without clear national borders? He writes that Israeli security should be paramount, but the Judea and Samaria he envisions would be a long-term security nightmare for Israel.

Has Mandel parchance ever read this Angus-Reid polling research that shows many Israelis actually oppose a 2-state "solution"? This is the same magazine that 7 years ago would not even oppose the damage Ariel Sharon led to, and has rarely even spoken about anything Pamela Geller's had to say. Mandel also perpetuates the lie of a "palestinian people", and might I add that so long as they continue to embrace Islam, that's a reason why they're not deserving of voting rights if they intend to exploit that for purposes that could help undermine Israel's safety in their favor. Mandel then caps his junk with the following:

...it would be more constructive if Dayan made these critiques of Mideast policy as part of an effort to reform the current structure of the two-state solution in ways that might make it more workable, not less.

Very disappointing to see Commentary become an advocate for the two-state final solution, which not only will lead to placing a dagger pointed at the Tel Aviv - Jerusalem heartland, but more importantly legitimizes redentist fantasies that the biblical lands of Judea and Samaria are really Arab lands over which Jews have no claim to whatsoever. The resulting delegitimation that has flowed from accepting the Arab myth that Judea and Samaria is theirs is most manifest in the massive erosion of support Israel has suffered in the western media ever since it signed the Oslo Accords. Now I am starting to understand why Newt Gingrich's most accurate statement about the Palestinians being an invented people provoked such hostility among Contention commentators. However I have yet to comprehend why those who hold high the neoconservative banner embrace policies that objectively undermine Israel and only further Islamic jihadism.

Whenever Commentary publishes degrading opinions like Mandel's, that's exactly what makes me wonder if they're even a truly reliable source to begin with, if they cannot bring themselves to shun an otherwise damaging belief and policy. This is just why a magazine like them requires considerable caution and much of what they say has to be taken with big bags of salt.

WHATEVER word you use to describe Israel’s 1967 acquisition of Judea and Samaria — commonly referred to as the West Bank in these pages — will not change the historical facts. Arabs called for Israel’s annihilation in 1967, and Israel legitimately seized the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria in self-defense. Israel’s moral claim to these territories, and the right of Israelis to call them home today, is therefore unassailable. Giving up this land in the name of a hallowed two-state solution would mean rewarding those who’ve historically sought to destroy Israel, a manifestly immoral outcome.

Of course, just because a policy is morally justified doesn’t mean it’s wise. However, our four-decade-long settlement endeavor is both. The insertion of an independent Palestinian state between Israel and Jordan would be a recipe for disaster.

The influx of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees from Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and elsewhere would convert the new state into a hotbed of extremism. And any peace agreement would collapse the moment Hamas inevitably took power by ballot or by gun. Israel would then be forced to recapture the area, only to find a much larger Arab population living there.

Moreover, the Palestinians have repeatedly refused to implement a negotiated two-state solution. The American government and its European allies should abandon this failed formula once and for all and accept that the Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria are not going anywhere.

Read the rest. He deserves many congratulations for this. But one more reminder: that land we had to go into during 1967 was handed over by the British to the Arab/Muslim entity. And that's just one more reason why we have the right to live there.

OBAMA IS FOND OF CALLING HIS STATIST APPROACH ONES THAT WILL LEAD TO GROWING THE ECONOMY "FROM THE MIDDLE OUT" - BUT THIS IS JUST AN ATTEMPT TO BE CLEVER AND MAKE IT SEEM LIKE HIS POLICIES HELP THE MIDDLE CLASS.

“We tried that and it didn’t work,” Obama said of Mitt Romney’s proposed tax cuts and spending cuts, which he dismissed as a Bush-style “top down” economic policy. “Just like we’ve tried their plan, we tried our plan — and it worked,” he added later in the speech. “That’s the difference. That’s the choice in this election. That’s why I’m running for a second term.”

HERE ARE OBAMA VIDEOS:

AND THIS:

IN FACT, THE POLICIES OF THE LAST 3 1/2 YEARS HAVE NOT WORKED; THEY HAVE HOLLOWED OUT THE CORE OF AMERICA'S ECONOMY AND OUR ECONOMIC AND MILITARY POWER.

WE HAVE MORE UNEMPLOYED WHO ARE UNEMPLOYED FOR LONGER THAN EVER.

WE HAVE MORE DEBT - OBAMA HAS ACCUMULATED MORE DEBT IN 3 1/2 YEARS THAN BUSH DID IN 8.

WE HAVE SQUANDERED TAXPAYER MONEY ON THE UAW AND GM AND 2 DOZEN SO-CALLED "GREEN BUSINESSES" - MOST OF WHOM HAVE GONE OUT OF BUSINESS, OR ARE MAKING THEIR PRODUCTS OVERSEAS.

OBAMA'S POLICIES HAVEN'T WORKED - UNLESS HIS GOAL WAS TO MAKES US WEAKER.

AND THE POLICIES THAT OBAMA'S WERE BUILT UPON WERE ALSO FAILURES: THE "GREAT SOCIETY" FAILED. WELFARE REFORM WORKED. AND REAGANOMICS SAVED US FROM CARTER'S MALAISE.

REPEAT: WHAT GOT US INTO THE DITCH - AND WHAT HAS KEPT US THERE - ARE THE LIBERAL POLICIES THAT OBAMA NOW TRIES TO DEFEND.

AND ANOTHER THING:

OBAMA IS MISTAKEN OR LYING WHEN HE ARGUES THAT THE GOP.CONSERVATIVE POLICIES "IT'S WHAT CAUSED THIS MESS IN THE FIRST PLACE."

I just want to point out that we tried their theory for almost 10 years, and here’s what it got us: We got the slowest job growth in decades. We got deficits as far as the eye can see. Your incomes and your wages didn’t go up. And it culminated in a crisis because there weren’t enough regulations on Wall Street and they could make reckless bets with other people’s money that resulted in this financial crisis, and you had to foot the bill. So that’s where their theory turned out.

THIS A BIG LIE.

OBAMA AND THE LEFT WANT YOU TO BELIEVE THAT DEREGULATION CAUSED THE CRASH.

AS IF GOP POLICIES AND BY EXTENSION MITT ROMNEY CAUSED A PHONY AND DOOMED GILDED AGE. HERE'S A RECENT COVER FROM THE SOCIALIST RAG "THE NATION":

THIS IS WHY THEY CHOSE THE SLOGAN "FORWARD". IT HIGHLIGHTS THE IDEA THAT VOTING GOP IS GOING BACKWARDS TO THE CRASH AND WHAT CAUSED IT.

THIS IS BULLS*IT. TOTAL EFFING DECEITFUL PROPAGANDA.

DEMOCRAT AND LIBERAL REGULATIONS AND NOT REPUBLICAN AND CONSERVATIVE DEREGULATION CAUSED THE CRASH.

THAT'S RIGHT.

WHAT INFLATED THE BUBBLE THAT LED TO THE CRASH WERE THE REGULATIONS ON THE BANKING INDUSTRY THAT FORCED THEM TO UNDERWRITE SUB-PRIME AND ALT-A LOANS AND THE REGULATIONS THAT PERMITTED FANNIE MAE TO BUNDLE THEM AND CREATE DERIVATIVES WITH THE IMPLIED GUARANTEE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

REGULATIONS - SOCIALIST REGULATIONS - FORCING BANKS TO MAKE LOANS BASED ON LEFTIST "SOCIAL ENGINEERING" CAUSED THE BUBBLE WHOSE BURSTING LED TO THE CRASH.

WITHOUT THOSE REGULATIONS - AND THE MALFEASANCE AT FANNIE MAE (A WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF THE LIBERAL ESTABLISHMENT) - THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO BUBBLE AND VERY FEW BAD LOANS ISSUED TO PEOPLE WHO REALLY DIDN'T DESERVE THEM - AND NO CONTAMINATED DERIVATIVES AND NO FINANCIAL CRASH.

THE LIBERAL "SOCIAL ENGINEERING" POLICIES OF OBAMA AND REID AND PELOSI AND DODD AND FRANK AND GEITHNER AND CARTER ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE BUBBLE AND CRASH, NOT GOP POLICIES.

A foretaste of what might occur in London when the Olympic games open on Friday, July 27, occurred on July 20 when a Muslim youth shouting in Arabic, “God is great”, attempted to seize the Olympic torch as it was being carried through Maidstone toward Redhill.

I was reminded of the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich when members of the Israeli team were targeted and killed by Islamists. Then I thought of other terrorist attacks in London and in Manchester in the recent past.

Wikipedia offers some sobering information about Islam and England. There were more than 1,500 mosques in England as of 2007. Muslims have been part of the English population as early as 1707 and today it is the second largest religion in the country. As of 2011 the Muslim population was estimated to be 2.869 million. It is the fastest growing religion in the UK. [...]

The opening day ceremonies will be further disrupted by planned strikes by transportation unions and the main access to the venue will be via subway, a prime target for bombs. The British have mobilized elements of their armed forces to provide security, but it is my view that, like most acts of terrorism, it will be virtually impossible to deter bombings and other mayhem.

The 2012 Olympic Games hold the prospect of becoming a bloodbath for participants and attendees.

This is hardly at all a way to celebrate an event like the Olympic games by having union strikes take place. It's very good that Israeli security sources are set up at the games, but even so, in a country that's already sold its soul, there's no telling what could happen.

Jerusalem police chief Nisso Shaham took a forced administrative leave starting on Thursday morning, following reports of sexual assault against a policewoman. The Justice Ministry’s Police Investigations Department said Shaham was questioned yesterday on suspicion of sexual harassment, indecent assault, and illicit sexual relations after an undercover investigation.

Dept. Commander Nissim Edri, the head of the Zion precinct, was also placed on administrative leave on the suspicion that he was aware of Shaham’s actions and did not take appropriate action as required by law.

The contents of the investigation are still under a partial media gag order. [...]

Shaham captured headlines in 2005 when he was the Negev District Chief during the disengagement from Gaza. Shaham was filmed saying that the settlers in Kfar Maimon “should all burn, those [expletive] settlers.”

Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino has decided to suspend from office the Jerusalem District Major General Nisso Shacham until further notice, due to an ongoing investigation against him and another senior officer in the district for sexual assault, harassment and misconduct. Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch has been briefed on the case.

Now to the poetic justice business: Nisso Shacham has become the face of the Gush Katif evacuation with this highly watched video, shot by Channel 10 photographer Yisrael Rosner, in which he is depicted giving instructions to his men using the most vile and violent language (don’t watch in a room with Hebrew speaking children).

Shacham is seen telling his troops: “No problem whatsoever – batons, lower body if necessary. – OK,” and a line we can’t quote here in which he says he isn’t some lady of the night and then adds a sordid description which included himself and a proverbial mother of the demonstrators.

The ranking officer’s vulgar language and obvious violent attitude towards the “Haredim” as he refers to the settlers (“I’m an expert on Haredim,” he tells his men in the video), peppered with gutter sexual imageries, brought before the Israeli public an image of Israel’s police force as they all had known from personal encounters – and remains to this day an extreme symbol of the way the establishment felt at the time about the vermin-like settlers that stood in its way.

The storm that erupted following the broadcast on Channel 10 (the most hated news channel by government of all stripes) forced the police brass’ hand.

On July 24, Police Chief Moshe Karadi suspended Shacham for his behavior, removing him from the senior role he had been assigned in uprooting and transferring some 8,500 Jews from their homes in Gush Katif, Gaza strip.

Then NRP MK Shaul Yahalom slammed what he termed an inadequate punishment. “The police chief’s decision sends a message of forgiveness in the face of violence, which is contradictory to democracy and the law,” he said. “The fact that Shacham was not kicked out of the police proves the police disregard the standards of democracy and maintaining the rule of law in Israel.”

Even Oslo architect, former Meretz Chairman MK Yossi Beilin was offended by the video, calling it a “serious error.”

“Sacham’s place is not in the police. The things he said have no explanation and should not be forgiven,” Beilin said.

It turns out both men, on the right and on the left, were absolutely correct.

Exactly seven years later to day (it works if you allow for two leap years), foul mouthed Jerusalem police chief Nisso Shacham was given a forced vacation again. He will be replaced by Inspector Manny Yitzhaki, who only eight days ago received an appointment as head of Lahav 433, a new Israeli crime-fighting unit with an FBI-like status regarding local police operations.

Another Jerusalem senior police officer was suspended, Brigadier General Nissim Edery, commander of the Zion police station. There is a gag order on both suspensions. Rumors suggest Shacham and his buddy concealed evidence about an ongoing investigation.

One thing is certain, if finally given the boot, the Memoir by disgraced policeman Nisso Shacham will be a local hit.

And still a bit more in this article, which provides clearer info on the charges:

Three women have made complaints, according to Channel 10. According to Channel 2, one of the complainants claims that Shaham tried to kiss her during an interview.

His subordinate, Nissim Edri, who commands the city’s Zion sub-station, is suspected of ignoring complaints about Shaham’s behavior.

Given what an obscene color of character Shaham's got, it shouldn't be too surprising he could be that bigoted against those policewomen too. Now, he's on the receiving end of some more punishment, but the big question is whether he'll actually pay for his crimes with a dismissal from the police and a jail sentence for the offenses he's committed.

Rahm Emmanuel calls for enforcing Sharia law in Chicago, saying "shutting down liquor stores" is one of the solutions to the crisis that his Leftist Regime has created.

Ignoring Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan’s history of anti-Semitic remarks, Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday welcomed the army of men dispatched to the streets by Farrakhan to stop the violence in Chicago neighborhoods.

Ald. Debra Silverstein (50th), an Orthodox Jew, has said it’s good that Farrakhan is “helping” in the fight against crime, “but it doesn’t eradicate the comments that he’s made about the Jewish community.”

Emanuel offered no such caveat. Although Farrakhan has a history of making anti-Semitic statements, Chicago’s first Jewish mayor has no interest in revisiting that controversy.

He’s more concerned about reducing a 40 percent surge in Chicago homicides that’s become a media obsession and threatens to undermine his efforts to market Chicago to international tourists.

“People of faith have a role to play and community leaders have a role to play in helping to protect our neighborhoods and our citizens. You cannot get there on just one piece of an anti-crime strategy,” the mayor said.

“The police have a role to play. Tearing down abandoned buildings has a role to play. Shutting liquor stores that are a cancer in the community have a role to play. Community leaders have a role to play. Pastors have a role to play. Principals have a role to play. And most importantly, parents have roles to play. They have decided, the Nation of Islam, to help protect the community. And that’s an important ingredient, like all the other aspects of protecting a neighborhood.”

For the last two Mondays, black men in dress suits and bow ties fanned out across violence-plagued Chicago neighborhoods — first Auburn-Gresham, then South Shore — to form a human wall of protection against any sudden outbreak of gunfire.

The overall dynamic favors Republicans, who look poised to maintain their hold on the House. More Democrats than Republicans have retired in districts where they were endangered, and more Republicans benefited from the decennial redistricting, leaving the Democrats with too small a cushion of Teflon incumbents as they try to regain a majority in the House.

Of the 80 races viewed as most competitive by The New York Times, based on polls and interviews with independent analysts, 32 are leaning Republican, 23 are leaning Democratic and 25 are tossups.

YEAH BABY!

AND WE CAN TAKE THE SENATE - AND THE WHITE HOUSE!

IF WE FAIL TO DEFEAT OBAMA, THEN I PRAY WE IMPEACH THE BASTARD - OVER FAST AND FURIOUS OR THE GREEN ECONOMY SCANDALS.

Evidence of a community of prehistoric artists and craftspeople who “invented” ceramics during the last Ice Age – thousands of years before pottery became commonplace – has been found in modern-day Croatia.

The study, which is published in the journal PLoS ONE, adds to a rapidly-changing set of views about when humans first developed the ability to make ceramics and pottery. Most histories of the technology begin with the more settled cultures of the Neolithic era, which began about 10,000 years ago.

Now it is becoming clear that the story was much more complex. Over thousands of years, ceramics were invented, lost, reinvented and lost again. The earliest producers did not make crockery, but seem to have had more artistic inclinations.

HUMANITY HAS BEEN INVENTIVE FOR FAR LONGER THAN IS TRADITIONALLY THOUGHT OR TAUGHT.

AND REMEMBER: WE CAN ONLY ASCERTAIN THE AGE OF EXTANT ARTIFACTS; MANY INVENTIVE TOOLS THAT MIGHT BE FAR OLDER THAN THESE MAY HAVE BEEN DESIGNED AND USED BY ANCIENT HUMANS, BUT DISINTEGRATED OVER TIME.

I THINK THESE FINDS DRIVE HOME THE POINT THAT THE IDEA THAT ANCIENT MAN WAS DUMBER THAN US IS NONSENSE.

WE ARE NO SMARTER THAN MAN WAS 10 OR 15 OR 50,000 YEARS AGO.

OUR CURRENT LIVING STANDARDS ARE THE RESULT OF OUR RELATIVELY RECENT TECHNOLOGY AND THE TRADITIONAL INSTITUTIONS THAT ORGANIZE AND LUBRICATE HUMAN RELATIONS.

SOME WERE DEVELOPED VIA TRIAL & ERROR AND OTHERS WERE INSPIRED BY WORLDVIEWS AND KNOWLEDGE HANDED DOWN OVER THOUSANDS OF YEARS.

SHOULD SOME NATURAL CATACLYSM OR ATTACK, (NUCLEAR OR EMP, FOR EXAMPLE), DEMOLISH OUR TECHNOLOGY OR ABILITY TO USE IT, WE WOULD VERY SOON FIND OURSELVES WORSE OFF THAN OUR ANCIENT ANCESTORS WHO WERE EXPERTS AT LIVING WITH THEIR "PRIMITIVE" TECHNOLOGY.

AN AUTHENTIC AFRICAN-AMERICAN IS SOMEONE WHO IS DESCENDED FROM SLAVES, WHOSE FORBEARS SURVIVED SLAVERY, RECONSTRUCTION, JIM CROW AND THE WELL-INTENTIONED WELFARE-STATE DEBACLE CALLED "THE GREAT SOCIETY".

ANSWER:

CLARENCE THOMAS IS AN AUTHENTIC AFRICAN-AMERICAN.

OBAMA IS NOT.

OBAMA IS CORRECTLY CALLED A KENYAN-AMERICAN.

NEITHER OF HIS PARENTS WERE DESCENDED FROM SLAVES.

AND NO ONE IN HIS FAMILY PARTICIPATED IN ANY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT - AT ANY TIME.

THEREFORE, OBAMA IS NOT AN AUTHENTIC AFRICAN-AMERICAN.

MORE IMPORTANTLY: OBAMA HIMSELF LIVED A LIFE OF PRIVILEGE COMPARED TO THE LIVES OF MOST BLACKS - AND ESPECIALLY COMPARED TO THOMAS'S LIFE.

YET THE LEFT AND LIBERALS VILIFY THOMAS - AND CALL HIM INAUTHENTIC - AND THEY LOVE OBAMA.

The commander of the Navy said on Monday that Iranian naval vessels will carry out missions in the Atlantic Ocean in the near future.

“The Navy has carried out successful activities (to expand) its presence in open seas, and we will witness the presence of the Navy in the Atlantic Ocean in the near future,” Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari stated.

In September 2011, Sayyari said Iran plans to deploy naval vessels in the Atlantic Ocean near maritime borders of the United States.